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What Matters Most On Friday, May 24, 2013

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‘Mines that killed soldier this week were known to be faulty, had exploded in summer heat before’

By David Horovitz

M15 antitank mines date from Korean War, were modified with a home-produced device susceptible to intense heat, ex-officers say; several exploded in 2010 but IDF continues to send soldiers to clear them

Roi Alphi (photo credit: Courtesy)

Soldier killed by landmine laid to rest

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90/File)

Abbas failed to accept my peace offer because he’s ‘no hero,’ says Olmert

Former prime minister offers new details of his 2008 Palestinian statehood proposal, addresses refugee absorption within the Green Line

Kerry urges renewed talks, not a settlement freeze

By Bradley Klapper

Hague: Israel losing support in Britain

By Yoel Goldman

Obama: Israeli-Palestinian peace part of counterterror strategy

My father is at risk and won’t let me help

What responsibility do adult children have to their aging parents? See if you agree with the answers put forward here.

Lesley-Anne Knight

The Elders respond

Support of labeling guidelines to distinguish settlement goods serves the long-term viability of the State of Israel

Duhenah Reveaka of Bobruisk, Belarus is among thousands of survivors who rely on Claims Conference funding for aid. (photo credit: Sarah Levin/JDC/JTA)

Claims Conference head ‘never considered’ public apology over huge fraud

By Uriel Heilman

$57million con took 12 years to root out. But cost was borne entirely by Germany, and Holocaust survivors were not adversely affected, chairman Julius Berman says

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews participate at a May 16, 2013 rally to oppose the government's plan to start drafting yeshiva students into military and national service. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New bill exempts only 1,800 haredi students per year from draft

By Gavriel Fiske

Ultra-Orthodox politicians outraged by Peri Committee legislation, which would prosecute those who don’t register for service and their yeshivas

Israeli police officers confront ultra-Orthodox demonstrators during a protest in front of the army recruitment office in Jerusalem, May 16, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Jewish Home voices support for universal service bill

By Yoel Goldman and Gavriel Fiske

Illustrative photo of the Israeli flag (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Poor poll position

Israel low in global popularity ranking

By Nathan Burstein

BBC survey finds that Germany is most widely approved country internationally, and Iran the least

Finance Minister Yair Lapid (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid pledges to support benefits for Holocaust survivors

By Yoel Goldman

Cost of extending home nursing care to more of Israel’s elderly is estimated at tens of millions of shekels

New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher, right, consults with attorney Abel Montano at a courthouse in Bolivia, where he was being held without charges (photo credit: AP/File)

Jacob Ostreicher’s wife laments: ‘They will never let him go’

By Suzanne Pollak

Syrian President Bashar Assad in an image from video broadcast on Syrian state television Wednesday, April 17, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Syrian government agrees ‘in principle’ to attend peace confab

No date has yet been set for the joint US- and Russian-sponsored meeting expected to take place in Geneva

'Anonymous,' Israel-style, courtesy of the Israel Elite Force -- IEF (photo credit: Screenshot)

‘Anonymous’ a little less so, thanks to Israeli hackers

By David Shamah

Worldwide hacker group again targets Israel, but an Israeli ‘task force’ has come up with a new tactic to fight back

William Hague (left) and Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem (photo credit: screen shot IsraeliPM/Youtube)

In Israel, British FM vows ‘never to give in’ to terror

By Aaron Kalman

Netanyahu offers condolences after London beheading; Hague empathizes with Israel’s anti-terror struggle

Michael Adebolajo speaks to a cameraman shortly after attacking and killing Lee Rigby, last May (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Banned Muslim cleric likely radicalized Woolwich attacker

By ToI Staff and AP

Omar Bakri Mohammed says he understands ‘feeling of rage’ driving London beheading suspects

Linas Linkevicius, the foreign minister of Lithuania, puts on a yarmulke as he enters the Hall of Remembrances in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on May 19, 2013. (photo credit: Isaac Harari/Flash90)

In ‘highly unusual’ move, Lithuanian FM visits Western Wall

By Raphael Ahren

Foreign dignitaries usually avoid meeting Israelis beyond the Green Line, but Linas Linkevicius posed with IDF officers

Adam Green with fellow British fans of the English soccer club Chelsea on their way to a match in Amsterdam, May 15, 2013. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Kicking racism out of soccer proves a tough goal

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Murdock on Hazme Reir (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Hand puppet’s Holocaust joke on TV riles Chilean Jews

Jerusalem Ballet School dancers performing in St. Petersburg. (photo credit: Rebecca Kovalsky/Courtesy Jerusalem Ballet School)

Dazzling dancersJ’lem Ballet School wins big in Russia

By Jessica Steinberg

File photo of CodePink founder Medea Benjamin interrupting President Barack Obama's national security speech last year (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama drama‘Nice Jewish girl’ heckles Obama

French-Jewish singer Georges Moustaki dies at 79

Businessman Sheldon Adelson, left, and his wife, Miriam, on a trip to Israel (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

Adelson donates another $40 million to Birthright

Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Barely an MK, Mofaz eyes premiership

By Aaron Kalman

Far-right wing former MK Michael Ben Ari (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Right-wing activists try to crash Jewish-Muslim wedding

By Aaron Kalman

President Shimon Peres at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on May 12, 2013. (photo credit: Flash 90)

Israel stands with you, Peres writes to Queen after London attack

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of alcohol bottles (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Turkey passes law restricting alcohol sales

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jerusalem in 2013. (photo credit: AP/Gali Tibbon)

Hebrew media review‘Harsh failures’

By Joshua Davidovich

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